The Doug Pike Show 6-8-2024

In this episode Doug talks about Lighting and safety tips from when golfing on the greens. Mowing patterns and how you can get your lawn to look like a golf course. Fishing suviving tips during bad weather. Doug and callers talk about sting rays and what is the best way to nurse a sting. Louisiana is changing their red fish limits after 30 years. Doug is going to tell you why. Pier fishing, bait tips and more.

Episode Transcript

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This is the Doug Pike Show,brought to you by American Shooting Centers Guns
Shooting at Instruction since nineteen eighty nine. Now Here's Doug Pike. Here we
go. Saturday morning edition of theprogram starts right now, and boys,
there are a lot going on.There is a lot going on. I
haven't even well, I've actually beenon the property out there that live golf

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twice now and absolutely fantastic. Itwas kind of a weird day on Wednesday
for me because the plan for Wednesdaywas to swing by Golf Club of Houston,
pick up my media credentials, runout to Highland Pines for a media
day of their grand kind of agrand opening of the big new clubhouse they

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put up up there was about asfar from Sugarland as you can get and
still be kind of in Houston Houstonish, and then play. We were
going to play Hot On Pines andthat was where I was probably gonna end
my day and then head on home. Well, I got up there and
as we were sitting around having breakfast, it started to rain, and well,

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no, we had we had ourtour before breakfast. I take that
back. Right as we finished,the sky kind of cleared up. I
did make it up there to pickup the credentials, and then I went
to hot On Pines, about afifteen to twenty minute drive between the two,
and all of a sudden, you'resitting around six eight nine. It
was nine of us. I guess, golf golf media people, and we're

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not going to sit around. We'regoing to try to go play golf.
It's not pouring down rain anymore.We think we can go, and the
the head man, the guy whowas in charge of the golf course superintendent,
let the gm know, John Montagthat as long as we since we're
supposed to know what we're doing,would stay out of the puddles. We

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didn't have to stay on the cartpath, which made it all the more
attractive because it's the sloppy, wetcart path. Golf is just not my
favorite anymore. Anyway, we getout there. One hole we get through,
okay, two holes we get through, okay. I'm playing with Mike
Bailey and old friend and his buddyKevin. I don't remember where what Kevin's

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affiliation is, but anyway, he'sthere with us in our threesome of three
of three among three threesomes. Thatwas kind of clumsy in any event,
fourth tea box. I pulled theclub back, I swing it. Kevin's
already hit a bad shot, Mike'salready hit a bad shot. I'm thinking,
Okay, I'm gonna go show thesetwo guys, and I hit a

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bad shot. And as they turnedback to walk to the cart, and
there's this big flash of light.I thought, what is Mike doing using
a flash to take a photograph intwenty twenty four? And about the time
was coming out of my mouth alightning bolt. The thunder part, the
loud part, just echoed through thosetrees. It killed a tree somewhere,

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probably within fifty yards of us.It was the loudest thing I've heard in
a long long time. And allthree of us, without even saying a
word, just packed up, spooledup, and back. We went to
the clubhouse and licked our wounds.So then I had really I had the
day open. I had taken theday off from work, and so I
went back to Live Golf and reallyjust kind of hung around for a while.

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It was still raining when I gotto Live Golf, actually to Golf
Club of Houston, still raining,but not so bad, and then the
sky cleared and all of a sudden, I started seeing players and caddies and
everybody's moving around again, and allof a sudden, I want to go
see what this is about. Andit turned out even though it wasn't a

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play day, it was just awarm up day, and I'm sure some
of them were out there somewhere onthe golf course later on in the day.
At the bottom line was, itwas just fun to see some of
these players that we haven't seen inHouston for years back here and back on
the range at Golf Club of Houston, and they there's a big difference.
I talked about it yesterday on fiftyplus. There's a big difference in the

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demeanor, the mood around. AndI'm not taking anything away from PGA Golf,
PGA Tour Golf. I love itstill. That's a fantastic display of
incredibly talented people. But so isthis just presented in a different package.
Clearly, the live golf packages presentedto to kind of a younger audience.

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There's music on every hole, there'smusic on the range. It's a livelier
presentation and the players, to me, even now, this was just warming
up on Wednesday, but the playersseemed looser, they seemed more relaxed,
and I found that interesting and attractiveas well. John Rom' standing there with

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his teammates on the practice range onWednesday, juggling golf balls, just cutting
up and having fun. Cam Smithhooting it up with his caddy and his
swing coach over by the little chippinggreen, and they're just a little bit
a couple of notches down, itseems, in their sense of urgency,

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probably because they already know. Theyalready know that they're at least going to
make more than enough money to covertheir expenses, and they also know that
they've already been paid a significant chunk, and that clearly would weigh on somebody's
mind, positively or negatively, ifyou're the guy who took forty fifty one

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hundred, two hundred million dollars togo play on this tour, or on
the other side of the fence,you're the guy who is still responsible for
making all the money he's going tomake in the course of a year,
he and he alone. So anyway, I'm gonna try to get out there
today after the show. I've gotsome sweeping up to do here. I'm

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gonna try to get out after theshow and do some of that and just
feel it with the players on thecourse. I was gonna broadcast live from
out there, but it really madeno sense because they don't even tee off
until twelve ten. You've got toget the paratroopers in, what I'm paratroopers,
but you've got to get these skydiversin. You gotta get the music

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cranked up, you gotta get everybodywarmed up. That's the only thing I
think. It's a little bit different, but it's not gonna affect them at
all. Really is trying to geteverybody out at once with this shotgun start.
Everybody's going out at once with ashotgun start. That means everybody's got
to warm up around the same time. And I'm sure I'm pretty sure they're

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using both ends of the range.Maybe not, though maybe not because there
aren't that many players to get out, So yeah, maybe they all will
be on this one end seven onethree two one two five seven ninety Email
me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com thereand want a talker? Is he just
gonna chat with you? Melvin?Y'all buttied up now? He's having some

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voice issues right now? Oh no, frog in his story, I believe.
Get that frog out of there.Man, I think we can get
him on. You think let's tryit. If he sounds terrible, I'll
just knock him off. Where ishe? Come on? There we go?
How you sounded? Man? What'sup? What'd you eat last night?

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Well? Frog? Some some painpills? Oh buddy, what's going
on? What's got you down?I? Well, I'll get we'll get
into this. Okay, here,what do you need? What you guys
do? Wednesday morning? Order waitingin the OsO and uh man, we

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stalk up on a pot of redfishand just had her away with them.
Fredible, incredible. It was justone of those mornings. And afternoon came
around, a little squaw came through, and I decided to waiting over there
by the backery, and the sun'sgoing down, and a familiar I'm sorry,

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a familiar pain, familiar pain happenedright right over my waiting boots,
and sure enough, oh no,yeah, two foot stingery. So yeah,
So I just wanted to let theaudience know just in case, uh
they go through this went to expensehot water. You know, you have

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to go to you have to goto the to the er at least one
of the little emergency rooms. Theygot to make sure that there's no barber
in there. They're gonna give youtennis if you haven't had it, and
you gotta be prepared for the painand the pains of ten out of ten.
Oh god, I'm so sorry,man. Yeah, the uh,

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you know they're gonna let you knowthat. I've read a few women said
it's more painful of childbirth. Thisis my second time I've had it appen.
Yeah, one of the odds.And I'm wearing waiting boots on top
of it. Yeah, my gosh, Holy cow, were they sting ray
boots or just waiting boots? It'sjust waiting. Yeah. We returned into

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waiting boots and a horse from fromscreaming. You know we're we're men,
so you know we're wis to beginwith. Compared to women, I knew.
I knew as soon as it happened. What tooks me out? The
pain. But here's the thing.Uh, when you dip into hot water,
there's some sort of chemical reaction thathappens that brings that pain level from

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a ten down to about four.Yeah. Yeah, it's it's almost like
magic. Yeah. My problem waswas that bucket almost since fourteen foot and
you know it had already gotten mein the calf. Oh gosh, Yeah,
you need a bigger bucket. Yeah, I've got that thing flexed.

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I'm got that calf flexed and thatyou know that being in there. But
if you keep it in there forabout four or five hours, you're going
to keep rotaking that water. Youdefinitely need someone to help you with that.
Yeah, but eventually it becomes tolerable. So yeah, it seemed like
there was a whole bunch of themthat happened on that day. I don't

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know if it was the heat orwhat the conditions were, but there was
a lot of them that has alot of little sting raised down on that
into the coach. Cliff and Iwe did our waiting out in the surf
down there. He's out in thesurface more as a matter of fact.
And when we waited that surf downthere, we got there before daylight,
and he said, don't don't eventake a step without looking down, and

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make sure you shell for your feet, even in six inches of water up
here on the beach, because thereare a bunch of little baby stingrays in
here now, And sure enough,well before real good daylight, just kind
of moving around like I always moveshof on my feet on I'm I'm not
seeing any stingrays. But once thatlight got up, buddy, it was

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like walking a checkerboard, man,I mean it just Holy cow, how
many little stingrays can there be?And even those little bitty ones may not
zap you all the way up onyour calf, but if it's zaps you
in the ankle, it still hurtslike crazy. Yeah, A two four.
Let me tell you, man,there's no pain. I can't even

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Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry, Aaron, I'm so sorry. And
the worst part of it is,I'm you know we're leaving. I spend
the night we're leaving in the water. Yeah. So there'll still be some
fish for you when you're ready togo again. Man, don't you worry
save meal or something. Yeah,get some sting ray boots, you know,

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that's all you can do. Justget sting ray boots. They'll go
up to your calf and they'll keepthem bad boys away. Holy can okay,
man, rest that throat? Yes, audios, Dang, that's just
oh so painful. So painful.Even think about that. That's a pretty

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tough guy we just talked to.And for him to say it was a
ten out of ten on the painuntil he got that hot water to it,
that is something that does work.As a matter of fact, it
absolutely does work. Seven three twofive seven Pardon me, Bubble, email
me dougpick at iHeartMedia dot com.We'll take this first break and on the
way out. You know when you'redriving down the freeway and you just kind

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of axing, chilling, having agood time, talking to your buddies,
maybe listening to the radio, maybelistening to this show, maybe a fifty
plus on count cheap plugs. Inany event, you're driving and you hear
that little that tick and you knowexactly what it is. A rock has

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hit your windshield. A rock,a bolt, a screw, a nail,
whatever it is, it hits yourwindshield. And that sound means you
then have to survey every square inchof your windshield to make sure it doesn't
have a crack in it, makesure it doesn't have a chip out of
it, because if you don't getto that little chip real quickly, you

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know what's gonna happen. It's gonnaspread all the way across the windshield.
I have one of those about amonth ago now, and like, dad,
gummy, what's going on. Itold my son, I'd look around,
see if you can see where ithit. And we saw nothing.
Happy as larks oooh good deal.Next morning, not so lucky. The
chip the rock hit about a halfinch from the left side low of my

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windshield, kind of down by theinspection sticker, in that black part that
goes around the windshield. And Inever saw it, and I just presumed
when I got home that I didn'thave to keep looking. But I should
have, because maybe I would havebeen able to stop that thing. I
couldn't. The bottom line is Igot referenced to, I got sent to

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a place called VIP Auto Glass bysomebody I trusted, and Vip Auto Glass
within forty eight hours. It wouldhave been twenty four if we'd have gotten
the building people to let them comein the first day. Anyway, the
bottom line is, forty eight hourslater, my windshield is replaced at work.
I didn't have to go to them. They came to me. They
always do, got the windshield replaced, got the reprogramming done. And that's

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something that you really need to talkto Vip Auto Glass about before you let
somebody else do it, Because theright and wrong difference is a fraction,
literally a very small fraction of aninch in how that windshield is set and
how that thing is recalibrated, andif you miss it, a lot of

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your safety stuff in your in yourcomputer, your car's computer doesn't work right.
They will do all of that foryou, and they they did it
for me. I shopped around,I had got two or three estimates on
this, and theirs was the lowestprice. Surprising a lot of times.
I have to tell people, don'tworry about getting the lowest price, get

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the best work. Vip Autoglass.You get the best of both that I
could find. And I'm careful withmoney, like anybody else. They come
to you, they take care ofyou. They get it reprogrammed, get
you back on the road with abrand new windshield fast as possible. Use
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Glass TX dot com. Ques,this is Sports Talk seven ninety, say
Houston sports Fan on air and onFacebook at contact. Back to the Doug

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Pike Show. I remember this songvery well. Good toe Tapper, good
toe Tapper. Indeed seven one threeThe Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk seven
ninety. By the way, thanksfor listening. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety. Email meDougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Sky and
Mike, what are you doing upso early on a Saturday. I go

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all the way downtown for Katie toget Kolachis at the Kolatchi shop on Richmond
opens at seven, but I godown at five point thirty because the Tacoia
Laurent Laredo opens on Washington Street atsix o'clock. So that's what I do
on Saturdays. Oh my gosh,you are all over the place, man,

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Yeah, I am anyway, loveyour show, and I just I've
heard that story about Stingray triggered athought, but uh, the better story
I share with you. Back inseventy six, I was in high school
and getting ready to graduate. Iwent down to Galveston in the fall.
We were in a little s R. Five Toyota truck. You remember those
show I do man. Okay,they don't have a good turning radio,

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right, And so we were comingoff the San U Test Bridge right there
at that bay camp where it turnskind of to the left, and I
had we had two buddies in theback of the truck. We're crazy.
We were going surfing, okay,and we just got through doing a little
skateboarding dowth the end of the seawall. So we're coming around the two in
the back. I'm in the frontand my buddy is driving. He comes

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around that corner and the back,we back of the truck starts spent,
you know, yeah, spending outfor the sun on the road, and
he overcorrects to the left. Weflipped. I'm assuming we flipped two or
three times. One guy goes offinto the grass. One guy goes off
Kit's statement and he's all busted up, and we're sideways and I'm just looking

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at my friend. I didn't havea nothing happened to me. Our friend
was in the neck break. Hecomes the ambulance. They pick us up.
And you remember that Freeport Bridge usedto be, you know, just
two way, two two lanes.Well, the ambulance driver gets us in
the car and we had to comeback to Houston because he was pretty messed
up. And we're in the backof the ambulance or the buddies, you

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know, and we're talking and we'rekind of laughing and joking with him,
and he's he's kind of chopping andhe's talking. That's why he's talking so
much. So the ambulance driver pullsover, stops, comes back, opens
door and says, if you guysdon't shut your mouths, you're gonna get
out of this car. And you'relike, oh, so, then he
and the reason was all the wayback to Houston. All the way back,

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he came up that bridge, goingup the opposite lane, up up
uphill to the top of that bridge. I thought we were gonna die.
He went all the way He's goinglike a bat out of hell. And
then all the way into Houston,we didn't have the freeway. He had
to take, I don't know toomuch. Took a different road, almost
like the Galveston I don't know whatit was then, but he had to

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go in the left turn lane andjust running through intersections all the way for
fifty miles. Took us down thebench. Hop it was crazy. I'm
glad you made it, buddy.Yeah, we did the Thank good for
God for insurance because this guy gota huge settlement paid for his college.
Didn't really mess him up that much, but it was it was something else.

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Well, yeah, don't drive toofast and don't ride in the back
of the bit up. Thanks Mike, I'll see you, buddy, Dave,
can you beat that? Can youtop that? Well, I've been
there and done Mercy did so manyricks. It weren't ufold. It was
unreal. Oh lord, And whatkills me is like when that one dude

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crook you know, read it tome crisps every kind of like the police
officer comes up and they'll be like, it's our day. What happened over
here? They all know me ratherhere. But hey, when you were
saying shotguns start, yeah, okay, I hope you know. See I
was a track manager for three yearsat Saint Pie's and uh, I've got

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two starter pistols around here somewhere.I hope they are blanks when they're no,
they don't do that that way forthe uninitiated, for the non golfers
in the audience. And I'll putyou in that category after you just said
what you said, Dave, whatit means. It's it's a it's a
practice that's used in charity tournaments toget all the players on the golf course

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at the same time so that youcan get them all off at the same
time and bring them all in forawards or dinner or whatever. So instead
of having just a sound that goesoff, no, no, no,
it's not not even a sound.So what it is is it just takes
instead of everybody, Like if youand I were going to play by ourselves,
I might have the seven am ttime and then you would have the

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seven to ten t time, andthen Melvin would be a seven twenty or
whatever. And by the time youand I finished, Melbourn would still be
out there on the golf course.And if we had one hundred players,
there'd be guys just starting trying toget around. So what they do is
they assign groups to each hole,and everybody goes out kind of scattering,

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like a shotgun versus a rifle,and they scattered to each different hole and
then they all start at the sametime. Oh, I get them now,
I'll get you now. But I'lltell you what, go ahead,
Yeah, that's that. Yeah.But like I said, I do have
the pistols here, don't take themto the golf tournament, Dave. They

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don't need any help with their shotguns. Start but no, but hey didn't.
What I admire is the groundskeepers fromthe baseball fields football field. Some
of the football fields are artificer turf, you know, and same tis we
got artificer artificial turf over there now. And uh, you know, but

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I'll tell you what those ground keepersman, that's a lot of work.
I guarantee you it is. Iwish I could hire one of those guys
to do my lawn, be awesomewith it. What I've always wondered is
like, when you're watching the baseballgame, how come they got the stripes?
It looks like the grass has stripes. I think they cut it at
a different level. Well, no, it's well, it's mowing patterns and

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the way the grain grass has grain, the way it grows, and it's
a little bit of height, butit's mostly mowing patterns. They run the
blades cut in a specific directtion everytime they go over the grass, and
uh, it's it's like you're pullingit all in one direction when you're driving
north, and then when you turnaround and drive south, the blades are

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still turning it exactly the same way, but they're pulling in the opposite direction,
and that gives the appearance of differentcolors. Hey, you know what
I know, I guarantee those machineshave a up. I mean like the
GPS on it where they you know, they just push a button and it

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goes straight. I know somebody's drivingit, but you know a lot of
these guys, they they make theirlivings by being able to drive in a
straight line on a mower. Thegrant. Yeah, the fairways get cut
and they they look really good dependingon the tournament. And that's just that's
just a crew of guys going outthere and driving in a straight line.

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The GPS yeah, well I knowthey got him on tractors. Yeah,
gardens and stuff. But no.The other thing is, I'd like to
just mention, you know, withall the boats and everything that's going on
the water, everybody please be safe. Man. I don't want to hear
any more about any accidents going on. Well, we had a bunch of

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shark bites this past week. Goodheavens, there was one guy. There
was a guy in San Diego thatgot chump pretty badly. But there were
also some very calm, very previouslytrained in CPR and stopping bleeding all that
stuff that got him patched up andup patched up enough to get him to
the hospital. There was a teenagegirl from Oklahoma here who got her hand

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bitten by probably a little sand sharkor something like that, while she was
out splashing and swimming and playing withher siblings. And then I'd read this
morning that there were two and Ican't remember exactly where, two shark bites
along the same beach, probably thesame shark, probably some just near sighted
shark couldn't see what he was lookingat and didn't thought it was a fish.

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The bottom line is they shut thatbeach down too. They shut down
the San Diego beach for I thinkI want to say, three or four
days within a mile something like that, and just keep people out of the
water. And the one here theywouldn't have they wouldn't even have skipped to
beat for that. It just alittle bit of sharks. That's how they
learned not to bite people, reallyunfortunately. And you know what else you'll

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tell you too, one thing yousaid that was very important in a bad
situation like that, And I've beenin somewhere people have broken arm or you
know, in this bad situation,breeze, stay calm, try to keep
the person calm down, get themto the hospital wherever they need to go.
But the main thing is, youknow, don't freak out on it,

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you know, right, you needto. You've got to be calm
and hold on to whatever you gottahold on. You know, it's I've
been in a lot of situations.Put it that way, mercy sake.
Okay, Well, good lord,Oh yeah, we're watching over you.
Well, here's the deal. There'sa reason that the EMTs when they get

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there and they park the ambulance fortythirty twenty yards whatever from the actual scene,
there's a reason they don't run overthere. They're getting their ducks in
a row. They're assessing the sceneas they walk up on it, and
slow and Steady's gonna win that race. Now, something else I will say,
And then we got to take abreak here. If you happen to

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be the person who's helping the victimor whatever, and you're not sure whether
anybody's called nine one one, onething I have heard and learned more than
once is that instead of just saying, hey, somebody called nine one one,
because if you holler that, nobodywill because everybody thinks the other person
will. But if you look overand go, you in the blue shirt,

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call nine one one. Now,somebody's got some responsibility to the thing,
and they'll probably go ahead and doit unless they turn it. If
they turn it, run away.Then you got to say, you in
the green dress, you called onone one because the guy in the blue
shirt checking out right. I know. You got to go to a break
tomorrow. Yeah, with them guys. They pulled me out of there,

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them firefighters that knew me that whenmy bribs were Christmas show. They were
making me laugh all the way onthat backboard, pulling me up. That
had to hurt, oh man,I know. And then and then every
time we went over a bump tothe hospital, they go like, you
hang on, man, we're gonnago over a bumper. Yeah, letting
you know, letting you know,buddy. Yeah, those guys take care

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of you. Go with a break, ry buddy, Thank you, Dave,
I see man, audios. Yeah, EMTs. The men and women
who can do that job, orthey're they're a special kind of special.
They really are. Holy cow.All right, we gotta take a little
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breaking sports news on Facebook twenty fourto seven. We'll get that information to
them. This is the Doug PikeShow. Yeah, there you go,
Dave. That was for Dave andhis crushed ribs. That's kind of hurt,
man, especially when the EMTs aretrying to make you laugh. I
just had to turn to him,not funny, not now, save them,

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save them. I'll come take anotherride when I'm feeling better, another
ride when I just I've got astomach ache or food poisoning or something.
Oh my goodness, Win finally settlinga little bit along the coast, and
I mean the entire coast of Texas. I'm gonna make sure that it hasn't
changed in the last twenty or thirtyminutes, because it sure was nice this
morning. Stand by current wind.I'll just make a loopy loop here all

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refresh even though it's constantly refreshing.And oh my goodness, we've got dead
calm at San Luis Pass. We'vegot dead calm at whereas at Bay City
three miles an hour. I'm justI'm gonna move from East Bay all the
way down to Corpus Christie basically,and I'm all the way to Baffin Bay,

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and I'm just gonna read the numberson this is miles an hour,
mostly either out of the southwest orthe south, except for maybe from say
Saint Louis Pass to Yeah, therest of the coast it is more southeast.
There's a little turn more north init as you get farther east of

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here, but from Galveston down it'sreally kind of a south at east southeast
or southeast. And the numbers arezero eight, zero seven, ten nine,
this is all Now we're getting downinto where it's supposed to be really
really windy. Ten nine to eightten at Fort Ramsis, six at Corpus

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Christie, six at South Bird Island, and seven miles an hour at baff
And Bay. Wasn't very long agothat almost every one of those single digit
numbers would have had a one infront of it. It's finally, it's
finally here. We're gonna get whateverlittle break we're gonna get, and however,

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we're gonna get some good surf fishingin the next couple of weeks.
You're probably gonna be really really goodfor that. It's been so windy for
so long, and just the water'sbeen so nasty. It just hadn't worked.
But it's gonna work, and we'regonna see it up and down the
coast. I'm sure if this persists. We've got an onshore flow of wind,

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we've got light wind. It doesn'ttake many tide changes to clean it
up when the conditions are what theyare. I was thinking this morning about
getting my trout box together for thesurf and wondering what I want to put
in it, and honestly, I'mso old school I'm still a fan of
mirror lures. I'm still a fanof fifty ones. I used to throw

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them a ton in the surf andcaught. I don't know how many fish
off of them. Have no idea, they just hang right there in the
striking zone. I'm a big fan. I'm a sucker for top waters,
and I love to throw them,especially really early, even before daylight.
If there's a star in the sky, I'm gonna throw top water if the
water looks right, and I'm probablygonna be standing even up here if there's

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an incoming tide, i may bestanding on dry sand because there's enough water
on that beach front even up here. It's much better farther down the coast.
But even up here, those goodtrout that are out in that surf
patrolling looking for finger mullet, they'regonna be up in as shallow as they

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can get. And it's I've talkedabout this a thousand times. The reason
they go to that shallower water isbecause it just eliminates two of the escape
routes for baitfish. If they're infour feet six feet eight feet ten feet
of water and they sneak up onsomething, it can go up, down,
left or right. If they're ina foot of water or left,

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that bait fish can only go leftor right, or I guess forward and
backward, right, backward, rightinto that big trout's mouth. Don't do
that. If you have an oldfavorite, standby, first choice lure in
the surf, I'd love to hearfrom you. And what I might do
is just concoct a box of allof those and just get everything this audience

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through. And I'd suspect i'd bepretty well armed if I went out there
with whatever that would be. There'sa bait that I used to throw years
ago, and I mean a lotof years ago, when they still made
them. I would use it mostlyoff the little Rock Groins in Galveston,
when I was driving down there andwalking out on them, and whenever there

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was a lot of mullet and thesurf along with needlefish, which big trout
absolutely slurp. There was a baitmade by Boone b Oo n E and
some of this audience would remember thoseprobably. It was a Boone needlefish and
in a nutshell, it just lookedlike a fat pencil painted in needlefish colors

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with a couple of treble hooks hangingoff the back of it, and a
simple screw eye in the front.It was well painted, it was pretty.
It was a wooden plug, ifI rememberber correctly, and I'm pretty
sure about this one the very earliestversions of it at least. And God,
those trout loved that thing, Ohmy word, they loved that thing.

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Bigger trout too. I the firsttime I ever threw one was down
there on the one the rocks nextto what was the old Balinese room.
And again this is a long timeago. And a guy was already out
there when I got there, andI asked him, and he looked like
he knew what he was doing.He had the helmet full of lures and

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he had he had a five thousand, so he was he was uptown and
he was all geared up and knewwhat he was doing. And he hadn't
caught a fish yet. It's beentough, man. There's a lot of
bait here. And we swapped acouple of stories and and did some thinking,
and I went aheadn't tied that onbecause I had never thrown it before.
I'd been carrying it around for acouple of weeks or a month maybe

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and still hadn't tried it. AndI thought, well, if if this
guy hasn't caught one yet, andeverything on his helmet's what I got in
this except for that, And Itied that thing on and just absolutely went
to spanking them. That's what theywanted for whatever reason that day, and
they just wouldn't leave it alone.It was so fun, so fun.

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And the poor guy, of course, he just said to swallow his party.
Go you got another one of those. This is god. I wish
I did, man, I'd giveit to you if I did, but
I don't. So anyway, boonneil fish not a bad thing to throw.
I have got to take a break. I'm already a minute late,
and I apologize so sorry. Melvioyne. Timber Creek. If you have not
played timber Creek yet, you oweit to yourself. If you're a golfer

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and you have any business on thesouth side of town, straight down forty
five the golf Freeway to FM twentythree point fifty one. That's friends Wood
exit. Turn west when you getto twenty three fifty one, and about
three four miles down the road,you'll see the gate there's a high school.
There's a light, and there's ahigh school on your left, and

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there's the gate into timber Creek GolfClub on your right, somewhat kind of
a little bit secluded. You're gonnahave to be looking for it, but
you're gonna be glad you did whenyou find it. Go in there,
talk to them. Everybody in thepro shop is gonna want to help you.
They're gonna send you. If yourgame is horrible and you just you're
tired of being a horrible golfer,walk across the practice range to the new

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jj Woods Golf Performance Center at TimberCreek Golf Club and let somebody in there
help fix all that for you.And they can fix it, don't you
worry. Timber Creek Golf Club dotcom. Twenty seven beautiful holes right down
there on the south side of town. Very convenient to anybody in that area.
Timber Creek goolf Club dot com.Make your tea time right now.

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Timbercreekgolf Club dot com. Seven ninetyThis is Sports Talk seven ninety Houston Sports
online at Sports seven ninety dot com. Back back to the Doug Pike Show
at She's seven nine on Sports Talkseven ninety The Dougpike Show. Thank you
for listening. I certainly do appreciateit. I was talking about my favorite

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trout lures in the surf and Rogerjust had to weigh in. He just
had to go there. At leasthe acknowledged that it would be cheating,
says, you can cheat and usecroakers. No. The next time that
I use a croaker for bait,and those of you who know me will

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understand this very well, is whenthey opened Cormorant season. Then I might
try it. Seven three two five, seven ninety Email me, dougpick At,
iHeartMedia dot com. Oh mercy.Going back to my lightning story from
Wednesday, we'll call it a flashback. Yeah, Alan, ways in,

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let me see there might be morethan I can see in just one line.
Yeah, okay. Here we goplaying jack Rabbit course one day,
many many moons ago, walking carryingmy bag when thunder and a flash came
from a clear sky. So Iput my bag under a tall pine and
I stood under a much smaller tree, and all of a sudden, the
lightning bolt struck a transformer on apole in a member's yard on the course.

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Oh my god, I watched thatbolt restrike that transformer several times and
boom scared me to death. Iwent and trespassed and hit on a porch
nearby. That is yeah, I'mnot a big fan of lightning, and

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I've been I've been blessed to haveexperienced several near misses, and I just
don't hang out in lightning anymore.I've seen the pictures and if you need
some motivation to not stay out therelike some of the people did, there
were some people playing Highland pines beforeand after we went out there and got

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run off by lightning. The sirenwent off that says, hey, if
you've got a brain in your head, get back here to the clubhouse now.
And we passed a couple of groupsthat were just like, why are
y'all going in it's not raining.Well, yeah, we're going in because
we don't want to get struck bylightning. But if you're out there in

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that mess, it it can getyou. Go look up pictures of golf
club struck by lightning, look uppictures of fishing rods struck by lightning,
and then imagine that you were standingthere holding either one of them when that
happened. The outcome is not goingto be good. The outcome is not

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going to be good. What's theI think the record for somebody got struck
by lightning? Melvin? Have youever looked up how many times the most
what's the most times a single person'sbeen struck by lightning? No? I
haven't, but I can look thatup for you. Yeah, take a
quick look and just see. Iwant to say it's seven or something like

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that. And honest to goodness,if I'd been hit by lightning five times,
I just wouldn't go outside anymore.I'd have had enough of that.
Even as much as I like tofish, if I'd been hit by lightning
five times and I'd survived, I'dfigure, look, I'm looking in the
mirror, make sure I'm not acat. Maybe got four more lives if
I'm a cat. But no,that would be a hard thing to have

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to do. It, really wouldit, really would. I wonder if
anybody in this audience has ever beenstricken by lightning, struck, stricken,
struck it strucked joking, if you'veever been struck by lightning. I really
want to hear that story. AndI suspect this audience wouldn't be interested to

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hear it as well. What'd youfind, Melvin? It looks like the
maximum as seven times? Yeah,okay, I was right. Roy Sullivan
Lucky Roy. They call him LuckyRoy, they call him Holy caw.
I wonder what that does to yourwell, it's just your whole system gets
kind of messed up. I guessif it's if it's it, if it

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does to a human body, anythinglike what it does to golf clubs or
fishing rods, Yeah, you're gonnabe messed up for a long time.
Thank goodness for Roy that he survived, But honest to goodness, I would
have to assess my my hobbies.I might have to, you know,
you you drop fishing for bowling orsomething like that. You got to get

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back inside, man. Then youcan find indoor pickleball courts if you're really
desperate for entertainment. Pickleball, now, by the way, the leading cause
of accidents for seniors. Imagine thatall this talk about how good it was
gonna be for you to get outget busy again, but you get out

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there and you don't play tennis becauseyou know you're not in shape for tennis.
But you don't realize how many sharpmoves you're making when you're playing pickleball,
until you start playing pickleball and thenboom, boom boom, out goes
the ace, you know. Sevenone three, two one two five seven

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ninety Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMediadot com. Somebody just send me in,
I mean email about throwing spoons inthe surf and the spoon gold in
the bay for redfish, silver inthe surf for trout, whatever, and
all their shapes and sizes, probablyat this point one of the most overlooked

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and easy to throw and easy toretrieve lures. When it comes to slinging
it out there, bringing it backand fooling a fish with it without much,
if any manipulation at all. Youreally don't have to do anything except
bring it back just slowly enough thatit's wobbling well but not spinning and twisting
your line. And quality swivel isa must, not just a swivel,

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a quality swivel, because those thingswill turn and turn in and if you
don't, if you don't give themthe opportunity to turn against the swivel and
just start kinking up your line,that's exactly what they'll do. And that'll
end up breaking you off. Ohboy, he's back. Let me see
what he's got here. Hold on, let me get back to my emails.

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Roger talking about clubs being struck.Oh yes, everybody remembers the line.
Everybody remembers the line. This boy'sup in New York. Holy cow.
Welcome aboard man, Yeah good,all the way from New York to
remind us that what Lee Trevino saidso many years ago in the lightning storm.

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And this is back when a lotof professional golfers anyway carried a one
iron said take out a one ironbecause even God can't hit a one iron.
I don't know if i'd take that, bet. I don't know if
I would take that bet. Alan'sgot something he wants me to watch on
YouTube during the break here, I'lldo that. No, there's that croaker

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thing again. I'm not now,and I have once again, I have
no problem with anybody else anywhere usingwhatever they want to use lawfully for bait.
I don't care if you want touse croakers, use them. If
you want to use live shrimp,use them. I just that's just not
for me anymore. And that's okayif it's for you and you don't mind

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standing in line for two hours toget your three four, five dozen croakers
in the morning. Okay, that'sthat's your way of fishing. It's a
lawful means and method, and Igot no problem with it. Now.
If you're out there throwing sticks ofdynamite in and scooping up the dead fish
with a net, that's a problem. But anything you can do legally,
go ahead, get your limit.You can take your limit out of there

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every day. I'm not gonna doit. That's just I've chosen to throw
my fish back. And if youchoose to bring home your lawful limit,
more power to you. Call mefor dinner. If you've got little extra
file at or something over there.I'm not gonna I will never get on
anybody for doing for enjoying this sportin any way, shape or form that

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is allowed by the Texas Parks andWildlife Department in Texas state law. Just
if you cross that line, though, then we got a problem. But
man, get out there and getthem. Go get those snapper, Go
get those group or get your amberjack, get your kingfish, get your trout,
your redfish. You're flounder, allof them. Spanish mackerel croakers.
Go try and find a big croker. Guy. When was the last time

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somebody actually caught about a two poundcroker they existed. They're almost like they're
almost like an extinct species two poundcroaker now because they end up in a
shrimp net somewhere and on a hookin the summertime. That's saddening too for
me. All Right, I wannatake this break, try to get out

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semi sort of on time, andthen do a little catching up in the
emails here in a minute. Onthe way out, I'll tell you about
American Shooting Centers. American Shootings isthe largest non military shooting facility in the
entire state of Texas, and wehave some really big ones. They're on
West tim Or Parkway between Katie andHighway six. Very easy to find,

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and what you'll find when you getthere is three sporting place courses complete.
These are full scale, no cornerscut anywhere, three sporting place courses.
There are I think it's ten trapand skeep fields. There are five stands
setups all over the property. There'sa beginner's wing shooting area that you can
go to if you want to getsomebody started hitting moving targets now, and

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in that situation, I would alsorecommend bringing along an instructor. They have
instruction for all the shooting disciplines,of course, but wing shooting, especially,
the learning curve becomes much shorter ifyou get your initial instruction from somebody
who actually knows how to teach it, and not just from your buddy who
uses two boxes of shelves to killtwo doves on opening day. They also

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have the rifle and pistol ranges,of course, start at five yards that's
your home defense stuff, and goall the way out to six hundred yards.
Six hundred yards. That's fun towatch a calm morning like this,
Even in summertime. The six hundredyard guys would be out there. There's
probably two or three guys laid outout there, got all their computer equipment

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out there, got their handloads outthere slinging leeds six hundred yards down range
and hitting their targets. It's kindof fun to watch. I don't know
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nine. Now Here's Doug Pike Heightthree on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dougpike
Show. Thanks for listening, Certainto do appreciate it. Got lots going
on around here. We've got aprofessional golf event in town Live Golf Houston
up there at Golf Club of Houston. We've got calming surf that may if

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that holds up. I haven't lookedat the tide schedule, but it's a
tide schedule looks really good. Youcould, in theory, if you're tough
enough, you could make the morningbite in the surf. It's at Surfside
or Galveston. Come home, takea shower, and be back out there
at Golf Club of Houston. It'sgonna be a lot of driving, I
know, but I'd be tempted ifI didn't have to do the show tomorrow

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and then go back out to GolfClub of Houston. For I believe it's
a twelve to ten. It's Ithink it's twelve ten today and twelve ten
tomorrow, something like that. Theskydivers are first, and then there's some
other fanfare I'm not exactly sure what, but once that's all done, every
one of the players in the fieldfirst swings go out, or well not

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every player, but one one ofevery team certainly is first to tea off.
They don't all hit the ball atthe same time. That now,
that would be a true y'all gunnstart Just line four guys up along the
tea box, one, two,three go. That might be interesting.
Let me get Rick on the phone. What's going on, rick Bie,
good morning. You're talking about lightingand hitting people and things. I've actually

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heard Lee Trevino saving the things aboutGod, even y'all can't hit one or
I was at Tennison Park in Dallas. I think that's where he kind of
started playing golf and listening people formoney, and they was doing an expansion
to it or something. Anyway,he was doing a putting lesson and he
said that but during that process,and I don't know if it's sure or

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not. I've never verified it,but there has been a number of years
ago, and I've heard it before. Lee Trevino on the golf course has
been hit by lightning twice. Ithink it maybe three times. Actually.
Now he's just like he's a magnetlike that Wilson guy, whoever he was.
Yeah, anyway, you know whatMelvin and I were talking, Once

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would be enough. I don't knowthough, you know, if I got
struck once, I'd be really scaredfor a long time. But I don't
know if that would take me awayfrom golf forever, because once. In
all the times that I've been outplaying golf, it's not that many.
Well, the I'm seeing lightning hityou know the old saying, lightning never

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hits the same place life, Yeah, that's right, at least as a
kid out to what I was alwaysI was in a real bad thunderstorm and
just was kind of looking at Iwas underneath this old ship and it was
pouring down ring sure, and therewas a contree maybe one hundred yards away,
and this boat of lightning come andhit it, and of course the

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lightning hit it, and then yougot the big boom and I'm realizing what's
going on and it split that inthat Oh my god, it's a pretty
powerful stand. Yeah, And I'msitting there thinking, well, lightning doesn't
hit the same place, slash andhe was just moving all around and no

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sooner than I said, they hadhit the other side of that tree and
knocked it over and fell on alittle travel trailer. Oh my gosh,
no man, uh and hit thattree twice with him probably, I don't
know, three minutes. Wow.It's just something about that tree, you
know. Oh God, you later, all right, buddy, stay safe

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out there under these blue skies wegot today. Knock on wood. I
don't want to jinx it. Holycow. All right, man, we'll
see real We talk about that tomorrow. Okay. Yeah, Wednesday was quite
the surprise because on Tuesday, evenon Tuesday, on fifty plus, I
do this weather forecast, and nowI've decided I wanted to change up my

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weather forecast. And what I'm doing, I started doing it in just the
weather in ten seconds sponsored by TexasIndoor Air Quality Specialists. That's the Duck
cleaners that I met, the guywho owns the company. I fell in
love with what they do. Andanyway, yeah, that's all they do
is clean duckwork with a real specialsystem because after all, as we say,

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for him, cleaner air is healthierair. But the bottom line was,
God, where was I going?Just totally forgot where I was going
with this. Oh yes, Ido know now. So the forecast,
the ten second weather forecast, wasfor no rain at all on Wednesday.
On Tuesday it was going to becloudy, but it wasn't going to rain,

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and dog one if it didn't justcome a gully washer out of nowhere.
So so much for weather forecast.But anyway, what I'm doing now
with my weather, my ten secondsof weather in fifty plus is I'm doing
it. You'll appreciate this, thepoet that you are. I'm doing it
haiku. Now I am five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables, and

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Friday yesterday was the first time Idid it, and even even skeptical Will
Melbourne was somewhat impressed. So itworked out quite well. Seven one three
two one two five seven ninety Emailme Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Wow,
holy cow. Yeah. Patrolman Chris, he's far well. He's higher

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ranked than patrolman now and he's gotFlash at his side, the world's best
tracking dog man. If you ifyou get in trouble with the law down
in Pearland and you hear that thatthere's a cane ie out looking for you,
you might as well just take yourt shirt off and wave it over
your head. His flash is gonnafind your behind wherever you're hiding. So

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Chris Wade in, I want tolet you know him and join the show.
The lightning stories remind me of Caddyshackwith the preacher out on the course.
Yeah, that's a great scene.That really is. Oh my gosh.
I've felt like that on the baysometimes, but usually it's about the
time we're getting out of there.Anyway, I got stuck years ago in

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a horrible, horrible thunderstorm, thelightning, the wind, everything in West
Bay and a little seventeen foot illuminumJohn boat and I was alone in the
boat. I had launched at thecauseway and was two thirds of the way
to San Louis Pass when I couldn'thelp but keep fishing because I was catching

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three and four pounders in West Bayon every cast, I was in a
swarm of feeding big trout and Ijust couldn't stand it. I couldn't stand
it. And when I finally tookoff to go back, it was blowing
a hundred and raining sideways. Andbecause the only reason I went back and
just kept going through it is becauseI was alone, and I felt confident

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that I could get back, butI didn't. I wouldn't have scared anybody
else. We'd have just slammed itup onto an oyster reef for an island
or something and rowed it out ortucked up into a canal whatever. But
yeah, I drove all the wayback to the causeway in that and I
actually had to get some help justgetting the boat into the marina down there,
because that little light aluminum boat ina forty five to fifty mile an

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hour wind was getting blown all overthe place, and I really it would
have been very difficult to even getthe thing in there and get it tied
off. But I had some coupleof guys ran out in the weather and
helped me out outdoorsmen do a lotof things for each other. It's a
good thing, very good thing.Someone three two two five seven ninety email
me Dugpick at iHeartMedia dot com.In the midst of all that talk about

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high wind and rain yesterday, itwas actually a pretty good day to be
on the water if you're a snapperfisherman. Seasons opened up. It opened
up on the first and there havebeen some really good fish caught from what
I'm hearing. I haven't been snapperfishing while I kind of like to go
back out and do it again.And the Gulf of Mexico doing quite well
with its red snapper, still atwo fish limit out in federal water,

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four fish in state water. Iwould I don't know when, if ever,
the federal side of this is gonnaramp it up a little bit and
give us another fish, maybe justa third fish. We're not asking for
the moon, and I do feellike the population would support that. Where

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there's talk of going backward, evenfarther going and becoming more restrictive actually is
on the East coast over there,off the Florida coast, and I think
a little farther up even there's talkof a closed season on red snapper,
and red snapper was like it ishere in the sixties and seventies when I

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was going down there as a kidto southeast Florida, red snapper was the
bread and but of the party boatsthey would they did it differently than here.
Here we go out on a partyboat, we anchor over structure in
the deep, deep deep Gulf ofMexico, way out beyond side the land,
and fish straight down the way theparty boats worked over there. They

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would get offshore maybe three four milesstops, didn't have to go very far,
and then turn the boat's sideways tothe current and just let it drift
down the reefs and lots of kingmackerel, lots of snapper. There are

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tons of fun. That's where Icut my teeth on offshore fishing, was
on party boats out of Deerfield Beach, Florida, and it was an absolute
blast. It was for a seveneight nine ten year old kid, eleven
twelve year old kid, it was. That was big time fishing, and
we caught some big time fish onthose boats. I still have scar to

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you on the kind of the topend of my left thumb from pressing down
on spools too. When I wasscared the fish was going to just spool
me. I'd just keep pressing downon that monofilament and just letting it burn
away my skin until ultimately it tooksome of the fingerprint with it. It's
okay, I would I would gladlydo that again to catch those big fish.

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It was so fun, so fun. Didn't know any better, learned
by the seat of the pants,and ultimately was allowed to take big rods
up to the pier that my parentswould drop me off at the pier and
we'd go catch king mackerel off theend. We'd catch snook right up on
the beach. Basically he could seethem down there and sling a little live
pilchered at him. Oh that wasthat was good stuff, really good stuff.

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Red snapper off the pier also goodstuff. We'd catch our bait.
We'd catch about a half trash canfull of pilchers during the day and then
put about twenty pounds of eye sawon him in a couple of towels and
come back at night with There wasone kid whose family had a meat grinder.
He was a teenager. Drove hisown self to the pier. That

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was pretty cool to me, andhe had a meat grinding. We'd strap
that thing to the railing out atthe end of the pier and grind up
pilchers and tow chumballs out there atnight, and within an hour or so
there would be red snapper in thelights at the end of the pier.
That was just unforgettable to me.That was so cool. All right,

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I got to take a break.I'm just wandering down memory Lane and driving
off into the ditch. Belleville MeatMarket. That's worth a drive, a
little bit of a drive too formost parts of town, unless you're way
out on the northwest side, whereit's a lot closer. But once you
get there, they're on the Highwaythirty six, about fifteen minutes north to
Sealy, fifteen minutes south of Hempstead. And when you get there, you

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should already have assembled with the restof your family or crew or whoever's going
with you, the list of stuffyou want to bring home, the delicious
things from Belleville Meat Market you canbring home. And then while you're out
there, go ahead and grab somelunch and sit out on the patio and
eat a delicious barbecue lunch if yougot the kids with you. They're doing
hot dogs out there too in thatbarbecue lunch area, homemade hot dogs,

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delicious, absolutely delicious. Bellville MeatMarket's been out there for forty something years.
They kind of serve half a Texas, I would think, because people
come from far and wide to enjoywhat Bellville has to offer. All those
premium pecan smoke sausage flavors, beefchicken and pork cut however you want the
appetizers, the cheeses, the spices, the handmade tomalies that are darning there

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as big as a junior football.It's all good stuff, and it's all
at Bellville Meat Market. Plus ofcourse wild game processing year round. Belleville
Meatmarket dot com is a website.If you can't get out there, they'll
actually send just about anything in thestore short of a whole cow, out

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wherever you live, and it'll beready to go when it gets there.
Belleville MeetMarket dot com. We areSports Talk seven ninety. Listen online at
sports seven ninety dot com. Nowmore Doug Pike eight twenty one on Sports
Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show. Titling artists Please Melvin, who is

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that is struck by lightning? No? Him Simmons or Tim? Okay?
All right, well that seems veryappropriate what we've been talking about. Let
me get on the phone here,see what's on Dwayne's mind. What's up,
d Wayne? How are you doingthere? Doug? Longtime listener,

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first time called, Well, thankyou man, I'm glad we struck a
chord somewhere. What's going on?Oh? Back in ninety two, I
believe it was. I was onmaneuvers at Fort Hood. Darn well,
thank you for your service, thenmy pleasure, sir. But it had

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been raining all week in a youknow a lot of standing water, and
me and another sergeant were sitting monitoringthe radio and we're sitting in about four
inches of water, and lightning struckthe antenna right next to us and came
down through the antenna and through theradio and threw us into the water and

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both of us for a loop.He flew about ten foot up in the
air. I just got caught.I went flying out out of my chair.
And being in an artillery unit,uh, your first thought is when
you know around it's usually there's asecond round right behind. Yeah. So

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I'm I'm low crawling trying to findsomeplace to hide when somebody grabbed. When
somebody grasped me, and I lookover and the other sergeant is face down
in the water having the seizures.Got to fix him real quick, holy
cat, And I yelled, youknow, to get him. Yeah,
and I knew, I knew ourradios were gone. And the commander is,

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you know, back behind the unitof ways, and he has a
vehicle that has a radio in it, and I go running through the brush
yelling that for medic for the otherguy man struck by light. Yeah,
get in the The captain is alreadyon the radio, and I'm I'm about
six inches from his face, yellingat the top of my lungs and being

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a sergeant, that's rather loud.I can't hear myself. Oh wow.
He puts my He puts his handon the on my chest and slowly pushes
me away and says I and saysI got it. Sardin nor Sack.
Orsack is my last name. Hesays, I got it, Sardin R.

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Sack. I was just reading hislips. Holy cat, My mission
was done. So about an hourlater they found me wandering around in the
in the mesquite tree. Funny nowabout dang Man brought me back to the
to the unit. Now nurses startedlooking at me, and another soldier had

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been rolling up uh camo net onhowitzer struck the tube. Oh it came
came down the tube and those camonets they had these little metal rings in.
Oh gosh for radar scattering. Itscatters the radar and they made great

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conductors. Oh my gosh, itgot him, and they ended up taking
us all to the hospital, aregular hospital, and they had the guy
that had been rolling up the nethis fish for cly Holy Count. They
had to cut the net out ofhis hands and had to hit him with

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muscle relaxes. Yeah. And whenthey when the muscle relaxes finally worked and
he was able to unclench his hands, his fingernails had dug into his palms
and they had to stitch his palmsup. Yeah. That's tough story there,
man, Yeah, it was anexperience. It was, to say

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the least, Holy Cow, Andyou were talking about being scared after it
happened. For a while, itwill start lightning, your storm outside and
I have to go inside. Ilove watching I love watching lightning storms.
Yeah from a distance. Yeah youknow twenty five years later, sure,

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But for a while there, Ididn't want to. I didn't want to
be around when it started going.Bet you didn't, man, Holy Cow.
I appreciate the story, man,that gumt. I'm glad you made
it through, Dwayne. Yeah,wow, thank you. I'm sticking to
it. That's a great story.Stick to it. I like it,
Thank you all right, Yes,sir By Holy Cow, man. You

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know, we think about the militaryand you think, okay, if there's
not a war going on today rightdown the street or something, Oh,
those guys just they go to thebase and they hang out and they do
stuff. And I guess they makesure their bunk is tight and they make
sure they're shot and their shoes areshined. But they don't really have anything

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else to do. But those menand women are doing stuff every day.
And I think there probably has beenno more accurate commercial done on behalf of
the military than the old Army commercialwhere they talked about getting more done before
eight am than most of us doingan entire day. Because they do a

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lot, and they are the trainingthat they have to receive, and on
top of the first time they gettrained in something, then they have to
get trained over and over and overso that it becomes second nature. You
can't just show somebody how to dosomething once and expect them to be able
to do it under duress, underpressure in battle and not make a mistake

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unless they've done it a thousand times. And even then there's still opportunity for
mistakes. And I wouldn't hold amistake against any of them. But our
military is pretty well trained, andthank god for that. No tell them
when we might need them. Nowthat we've got what I don't know,
eleven twelve million new people in town. Holy cow. Thank goodness for people

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like Dwayne and the people who arecourageous enough and dedicated enough to go ahead
and say, you know what,there's no draft, but I kind of
want to take care of our country. And I'm glad that. What I'm
even as equally glad I was thatthere are so many people like Dwayne who
served formerly. But because they areso well, because they are so well

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trained, you know, if somethinghappens, they'll be jumping up. We
got this. I didn't serve inthe military. I was my draft number
never came up for Vietnam. Iwould have gone if I had been,
if it had been my duty,I would have gone. Absolutely I would
have. And I greatly appreciate anybodywho did go, no question about that.

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But I'm just glad we've got asmany veterans in this country, and
I don't know, we'll see howActually I believe I was gonna say,
I wonder if any of them mightnot be so eager to jump up and
help based on the way they've beentreated since they got home. But I

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suspect that their loyalty to this nationruns deeper than maybe the fact that the
people in charge currently anyway haven't reallytreated veterans the way that they should.
I think they come before a lotof people, especially that eleven million.

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Take care of our veterans first,then we can do that, all right,
I'll climb off this soapbox for aminute. I'll climb down. Here's
a little something that you may notknow about. You may never been to
this region. I've been to theregion, but not to the town Alpine,
Texas, little town with a bigheart way out there in the Big
Bend and one of the most beautifulpieces of Texas. Just that whole region,

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the whole Big Bend region is absolutelygorgeous, totally unlike anything around here.
And if you're looking for something differentto do on the fourth of July,
even in the coming weeks, they'vegot ghost tours coming up that are
actually conducted in a cemetery. Howmuch more ghostly and can you get than

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doing a ghost tour in a cemetery. They've got a professional baseball team out
there. They have got an outdoortheater in Alpine that does it this summer.
Actually they're doing Sherwood The Adventures ofRobinhood written by a guy named ah
what's his name, Ken Ludwig ishis name. All kinds of things going

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on all the time in Alpine,Texas, that little bitty town with that
big old heart. And if you'reinto stargazing at all, or you've never
actually seen a dark nighttime sky overNorth America, the Big Bend has one
of the darkest night skuys on theentire continent. And you will see for

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every star you can see over Houstonon a clear night, you'll see one
hundred, maybe one thousand over Alpine. Go to Alpine. Well, no,
don't do that, that's wrong.Let me get back. Visit alpinetx
dot com. Big fireworks shows toofor the Fourth of July and a parade.

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Everything that goes with Fourth of Julyin a small town is gonna be
happening in Alpine. Visit alpinetx dotcom. Visit alpinetx dot com. Your
rockets and astros live here. Weare Sports Talk seven ninety. The conversation
continues this as the Dougpike Show.Hey thirty five on Sports Talk seven ninety

(01:11:44):
the Dougpike Show. Thank you forlistening. Certainly do appreciate it. I
had to restart my laptop because itpitched a hissy fit and didn't want to
do what I wanted it to do, and I had to show it who
was boss. Kinda. I havea hunch that if this laptop wanted to
do something else, it would,But at least I'm back up and running

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now after just there was just somesome glitch in there, and I don't
know why these things happened. Veryinteresting. Rudy sends me an email about
live Golf's have lived lives, sparehas no expense. They're having a concert
tonight at the course. Crazy.It's not. It's not so much crazy

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what they're doing out there. It'sjust different. It's different. And I'm
trying to trying to think of someanalogy, some some parallel where a sport
or an entertainment avenue has been madedifferent somehow. It would be like the
first the opening of the first indoortheater. Theater had been done outdoors for

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probably a couple one hundred years beforesomebody actually figured out how to put a
roof over a building. Big enoughto hold a lot of people. And
the first time anybody saw theater indoors, it was probably just an amazing thing.
This is an amazing transformation of professionalgolf to not just the golf,

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but of a lot more going onother than the golf. The live golf
experience they'd like to call it,includes a lot more interactive stuff for kids
and families. It includes music constantlythroughout all day long. There are speakers

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covered with trash bags by the wayin case it rains, but you can
still hear them, don't you worry. They've got it turned up enough you
don't have to lean in close tothat bag to hear it. You can
hear it from down the block.And just the whole atmosphere is entirely different.
And again I'm not knocking the PGAtour at all. I greatly appreciate
and respect the format of that forexactly what it is and what it's been

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for what sixty seventy years or more. But live is just different. It's
a different. It's like drinking Cocacola all your life and then picking up
a doctor pepper. It's just different. And they were both they're both good.
They're both good. Two years ago, I would have said, no,

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I don't like liv golf. It'sjust it's too weird. It's gonna
be it's gonna be too crazy.But after being out there and actually meeting
the people behind it, interviewing acouple of them, it's it's got its
place. It certainly does, andit's gonna and that place is gonna stick.
I don't think that at this pointthey're going anywhere. I mentioned yesterday

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on fifty plus. I've got myhand in the air and my question is,
when are you gonna have women onthe teams. I think that's next,
I really do. I don't knowhow they can't. They've already got
a twenty year old playing against older, more seasoned, great players from the
world. Twenty year old out therelighting it up. He's the youngest.

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It just drove me crazy. Iwas looking at the birthdates of the players
on Live Golf, and then theyget, oh, yeah, there's guys
in the eighties and the nineties,and I look up and there's here's somebody
born in a two thousand in somethingand playing professional golf all around the world.
You talk about hitting the lottery asa young person all that and the

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paychecks aside. I mean, he'smaking great money. Obviously, he didn't
do it for peanuts. He's notplaying for minimum ways, I can assure
you. But just the opportunity tosee the world, to meet the people
that he's meeting, to establish therelationships he's establishing, that's invaluable, invaluable

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to a young man. I justhope he keeps a clean, good head
on his shoulders. And I thinkone thing that will help that live golf
brings to the table that the PGATour doesn't in that regard is the fact
that he's part of a team,and those teammates are also gonna be his
mentors, and they're gonna they're gonnalead him into professional golf probably the way

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that they wish they'd been let in, because everybody's experience to get to the
top of any professional sport has somepart of it that they kind of wish
they could have a do over.I wish I hadn't done this. I
wish I'd changed my plan, mystrategy on that, and so they can.
All he's got with four team orthree teammates, that's three people whose

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entirely different experiences can be learning experiencesfor him because as a teammate, they're
gonna share all that with him,bring him up right like their boy.
They're gonna be that's their little boy, you know, that's their little guy.
And young as he is, hecould still play lights out. I
was watching. I was trying towatch these guys hit driver off the practice

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range into a cloudy it's kind ofthat cloudy, hazy sky, whatever you
want to call it. And mypoor eyeballs, as old as they are,
they just every now and then i'dsee one. All the way out
there. There was somebody I thinkit might have been Joaking Neman hitting balls
and hitting cutshots with his driver,just little buttercuts off driver, and I

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was actually able to see them forsome reason, three or four of them.
And then somebody else was hitting andI didn't see one of them,
not a one of them. AndI know to watch out in front of
the club about thirty forty yards.You don't want to try to follow it
right off the tee. You've gotto pick it up. You've got to
pick up the movement out forward.And I don't care where I look.

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When whoever that was was hitting theball, I couldn't see it. I
could see when John Ron was jugglinggolf balls, I could see all three
of them in the air. Butthat's about it, man. Those guys
can flat move a golf ball.All right. Back to fishing for a
little bit. There were a coupleof things I wanted to talk about here.
Let me det it out. Itook care of that, took care
of that, took care of that. Oh, here's something. For the

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first time in the bloy since Ican remember, certainly, and actually officially,
since nineteen eighty eight, the stateof Louisiana, our neighbor to the
east, the Cajuns among us werenext door to us, are changing their
redfish limits because the numbers of redfishcaught in twenty one were the lowest since

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the eighties. They have been cavalierand free wheeling with their limits forever since
the eighties. Catch a bucket fullof redfish two buckets full of speckled trout,
and it was against with the trout. Anyway. I can't remember exactly

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what the minimum was on redfish,but it wasn't exactly a giant and the
trout limit was a foot twelve inches. That was it. It might have
been ten for a while, evenwhich is a sardine, basically, it's
a sardine with spots, and thatjust at some point that house of cards
had to crumble. And apparently atleast with the red fish they already changed

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their speckled trout stuff, and atleast now with redfish they've gone ahead and
done the right thing. These regulationstake effect June twenty. No more commercial
red fishing for redfish in leu Weizyanna. No more commercial fishing for redfish in

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Louisiana. I didn't think I'd eversay that, but that's what it says
here, Paul Prudom, Black andred fish being blamed all the way back
to the to the eighties, andthat turned into decimation of the spawning stock
off shore, which finally, lowthese thirty years later, finally is having

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the impact that most people who understoodred fish in their life cycles knew was
coming sooner or later. To thatstate. There was just no way that
scooping up thousands upon thousands of twentyfive and thirty year old fish and removing
them from the stock was going tohave a happy ending, and it didn't.

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So now and they've only dropped itone fish a day. It's not
like they did something draconian. They'regoing from five down to four per day.
Minimum size of eighteen inches compared tothe current sixteen inch limit, minimum
size maximum of twenty seven, whichis the same, but they are eliminating

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the allowance of one redfish longer thantwenty seven. So basically they close the
record books. And that's you know, and Okay, after beating up your
resource for twenty years or so,maybe thirty, maybe you need to do

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that for a little while. Thisis something else that I think is a
good plan, no matter where youare, no matter what you're doing.
Charter captains and crews for on fourhigher trips, guides in other words,
guides in their crews not allowed tokeep redfish. That means that if you

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take three people out there and thelimit is three per day, then wait
a minute, four per day afterJune twentieth, you got three people out
there, and you and those threepeople are gonna keep a bunch of redfish.
The most you can keep is thethree times four your your clients times.

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Therefore, you don't get that fifteensixteen or what it would be thirteen
fourteen fifteen and sixteen. You're four. No, you can show them where
to fish. You can point atit, and I guess you could reel
one in and throw it back ifyou wanted to just busy yourself on your
trip, if you're guiding in Louisiana. But you can't throw your fish in
the box legally. And I'm hoping, I'm just hoping that the state will

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get on board as collectively with alltheir guides and understand the importance of this.
It's a big deal. Oh you'velet me go so so long,
Mercy Melbourne. I'm sorry. Pause, We're gonna pause, We're gonna come
back. There's just so much goingon. I got so much. I
want to talk about Shooter's Corner PalmerHighway at twenty nine Street down there in

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Texas City is and an old schoolgun store. And if you don't know
what one of those looks like orsmells like, park in front of the
store. Look, it's very nondescript, very subtle appearance. There's no neon
sign flashing overhead all day and allnight. There's no one of those that.
There's no inflatables out there waving inthe breeze trying to get you to
come inside. It's just there's justa door, and you walk in the

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door, and from the time youwalk in that door, you look around.
Yep, this is a gun store. This is what gun stores should
look like. And then you justjust take a big inhale. Yep,
this is what a gun store shouldsmell like. And it does because it
is guns, reloading supplies, optics, camo, a great gunsmithing. That's

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part of what you're smelling in thereis the aroma. And I kind of
like the smell actually of all theoils and solvents and whatnot back behind the
scenes where they work on rifles andpistols and shotguns. When you get in
there, everybody in there knows awhole lot more about the shooting sports and
about guns than ninety nine percent ofus do. If you're one of that

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one percent and you need to reallytalk shop with someone who understands guns about
a certain specific, specific, minute, little detail in a gun, go
talk to anybody at shooter's corner.They'll be able to they'll speak your language.
I can assure you I had anotherguy, my buddy David, tells
me, hey, I took thatrifle down there to Shooter's Corner because you

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told me to. After I hadbeen told that I needed a whole new
barrel. Shooter's Corner said no,we'll take care of that, and they
did. D Shooters cornertx dot comis the website family owned and operated for
forty plus years. If you weara badge for a living, you get
a discount at Shooter's Corner, whichI think is a dog one nice thing

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to do. I wish more storeswould do that. V Shooters cornertx dot
com. V Shooters cornertx dot com. We are sports Stock seven nineties Houston,
the sports where you go with iHeartRadio. Now now get more, Doug.
Now that I'm back in here,I got to turn the volume up
a little bit. M yet goeskaboom. It's like a lightning strike when

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when we go to commercial volume inthese headphones. Holy cow seven one three
two one two five seven ninety.Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.
I love. What do I wantto talk about right now? There's
just so much stuff I I youknow, I mentioned I mentioned that the

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fun I had catching everything from snookto red Snapper off the piers in Florida,
and I actually got to watch asa little kid. Two, I
got to watch two people on differentpiers, one on the Pompino Pier and
one on the Deerfield Pier catch salefishoff the piers using live bait. And

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the way they would get them outinto a little bit deeper water than we
could reach by casting off the pieris to be there on a day when
the wind was blowing offshore fairly rarewind, just a light breeze offshore,
and they would suspend either a bigpilchard or maybe a mullet or whatever you

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a small blue runner, and suspendthat thing about six feet below a balloon
that they would blow up about aboutthe size of maybe cantlope, and just
drop that thing down and let thewind push it offshore. And they used
big reels. They had to hadto have a lot of line on there
with braid. It would be soeasy now to send that thing out one

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hundred and fifty two hundred yards andnot have to worry about empty in your
spool, but back then it wasa little different. In any event,
I watched them do it. Itwas very fun. That said, though,
the piers here in the spring andsummer and into the fall are mostly

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occupied on most days by tourists.There are a lot of people down there
who have come in from Oklahoma orArkansas or most any place way Dallas.
They come down here, they spendthe weekend at the beach. They want
to fish in salt water. Theywant to fish to beach front, and

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the pier gives them an opportunity toget out there standing over the Gulf of
Mexico instead of standing in it onthe beach, and perhaps catch a good
fish, and sometimes they do.Our peers produced king mackerel. Sometimes our
peers produced tarpin. Sometimes the sandlispast peer produced a lot more of both
of those things than most of thesebeach front piers here do. However,

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even still, the piers that remainon the right day are excellent places to
fish. You just said, Idon't talk about peer fishing often enough.
I really believe, because when Iwas a young guy, I didn't have
a boat and my friends and noneof my friends had boats. But man,
we love to fish. We wouldwadefish when we could in the serve.

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And that's an entirely different topic.But peerfishing, if you have the
right equipment and you have the righttiming is fantastic. I have fished that
ninetieth Street pier on days way backwhen, on days when the water was

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actually not just green and clear,but blue clear up to the beach.
It so helped me. It canlook like the Caribbean, and when that
happens, if there's any bait anywhere. I've watched guys and I didn't personally
catch a banita off the pier,but I watched a couple get caught.
I've caught kingfish, several of themoff that pier. I hooked the tarpin

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off the San Luis passpeer one timeon an August full moon, which was
pretty spectacular. Didn't catch the fish, but it was still pretty cool.
Came out and jumped right in themoonlight. Everybody's who It was a pretty
special moment for all of us peerfishermen down there. But they've been caught
off all the piers. These fishmove up and down the beach front and

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sometimes they come in if the water'sright, they come in close enough.
It used to be a very hitor miss thing because we had no cameras
to look at, we had noreliable sources down there, and unfortunately,
most of the people who worked atthe piers were more interested in selling admission

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tickets on the piers than they werein giving accurate information to be told.
Oh yeah, the water's green tothe beach right now, flat calm,
come on down, everybody. Youcan't throw a rock without hitting a speckled
trout. Though. You jump inyour car or truck or whatever, you
ride down there for an hour,hour and a half, and you pull
up and it's blowing twenty out ofthe east and it's muddy as can be,

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and nobody's caught anything in two days. Oh well, yeah, a
little while ago, it was great. It looked right when you called.
It was really pretty. No,it wasn't. They just wanted to sell
that six dollars ticket. But ifyou can use the cameras to time your
trips, you can catch plenty ofspeckled trout, especially at night, night

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and early early morning. It justwhen you expect them to be up there,
in the shallowest incoming tide, lights, southeast wind, clean water,
full of bait. You're gonna catchspeckl trout off that pier. It's just
gonna happen. If you know whatyou're doing, if you know what you're
doing, there's a little bit ofthat that has to be taken into account

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as well. But nonetheless, peerfishing is a legitimate option. The rock
groins up and down Galveston very legitimateoptions. The surf side Jetty is crowded
as can be. That's the onlydownside right now as we speak, the
end of the Surfshie Jetty probably hasone hundred and fifty people on it,

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and that's too crowded. I wishthey would take the final two hundred yards
of those rocks they say extend wellout into the Gulf of Mexico, at
least the last one hundred yards,take that sidewalk top off of there and
make anybody who wants to go fishout toward the end, make them work
for it a little bit. There'splenty of room back inside of that for

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anybody who has difficulty getting to theend or for whatever reason. But unfortunately,
right now what happens out there atthe end of the pier is that
there's people out there with six orseven rods. They've got Hibachi's set up,
they've got beach umbrellas that get ineverybody's way. They bring loads of

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groceries and garbage and just leave itthere when they walk back off the jetty.
That was one of the best plansever set in place for public fishing,
and it's been turned into a garbagecan. An overcrowded garbage can not
so much. Black Horse Golf Cluba fantastic place to go. Tee it

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up on a beautiful day like thisway up on the northwest side. If
you live up on that side oftown. Great data, grab the clubs.
Go over to black Horse. There'stwo golf courses over there, north
and the South. Both the funto play, and if you're having trouble
go to the far end of therange and get some instruction. Great crew
of instructors down there to help youwith anything that's wrong with your game.

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Black Horse is on Fry Road,just a little way south of two ninety,
has been forever. I've played itat this point probably one hundred times
and love it every time I goout there. Great people, great golf
courses, and everything you can imagineyou'd need for a big tournament. If
you've got to raise a lot ofmoney, get online, set yourself to

(01:32:58):
tea time right now. Black HorseGolf Club. That's black Horse Golf Club
dot com. This is the DogpikeShow, brought to you by American Shooting
Centers, Guns Shooting and Instruction sincenineteen eighty nine. Now Here's dog Pike,
now Here's Doug Pike. Holy cow, already to the nine o'clock hour.

(01:33:21):
It's a pretty fast show. Iwould say, Melbourne, what do
you think? I agree, hadsome good calls, had some good emails.
Let me see if I've got anyfresh emails, and then we'll go
to the Oh what have I done? Dad? Gummt I messed up.
I was gonna send Roger a response. He lives in the Palm Beaches much

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of the year, and the ballytalking about baits, and I was talking
about how somebody had caught sailfish fromthe piers down there when I was a
little kid, and I just Ijust fell in love with surffishing and peerfishing
and saltwater fishishing in general. He'stalking about Ballyhu and Goggleize down there for

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sailfish baits, and during the tournamentperiod he said, these people are paying
as much as ten bucks apiece forlive baits. That's if you're a teenager
down there with a cast net ora couple of Sabeki rigs, you could

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you could make some pretty decent moneyaround tournament time. It's seasonal, obviously,
but nonetheless, even you could discountthem, sell them for seven point
fifty, you'd sell as many asyou could catch. That's amazing, just
amazing. And I responded, Imeant to respond to you that up here

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in the summertime, it's the croakerfishing. The live croakers. People pay
what I don't even know how muchthey cost now buck and a half two
bucks apiece for a three or fourinch bait fish to catch about a three
pound fish. And I don't know. I would much prefer to invest that
money in lures and take my chances. My family's ability to get a decent

(01:35:10):
dinner does not rely on me catchingfish, Thank goodness. It's it's a
it's a different, different set ofeverything. Seven one three two one two
five seven to ninety Email on meDoug Pike, Atiheartmedia dot com, red
fish. Oh, I want toI want to read this real quick.
I'll tell you what I'll do thatduring a break. I want to go

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back to these golf tournament leader boards. We'll start right here in Houston with
the leaderboard from Live Golf Houston outat Golf Club of Houston, where I'm
headed after the show. I'm ninetypercent sure my my son actually may be
able to join me. He's gota baseball game that goes off I think
right about now, actually up towardthere, up toward the tournament, and

(01:35:57):
after that he's going to come downhere and meet me and we're gonna run
out there together. I think.On the team setup, you got to
remember that Live Golf has team playand individual player play that are well,
they're all the same guys out onthe golf course, but there is opportunity
for a team to win, anopportunity as an individual to It's kind of

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like being the medalist of a tournamentto stay first, second, third,
or whatever. It's very much likea college tournament set up or a high
school tournament setup. You have yourteams, these are all four man teams,
and then you have your individual medalist, and there's rankings for all the
players currently after yesterday's first round,and they are they use all four scores

(01:36:44):
and yesterday the Clicks Club, theClicks Golf Club, that is Samujah Khimer
Moronic and Bland shot seventeen under parcollectively seventeen under to lead by a sleep.
They're three up on Torque. TheTorque team that is Ortiz, Neman,

(01:37:05):
Munoz and Pereira. The Rippers that'sJones, Herbert Smith and Leishman are
in third place at twelve under par, along with who got a handful of
twelve We got four twelves that's theRippers, Legion four aces that's Dustin Johnson,

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Pat Perez, Patrick Reid and HaroldVarner the third. They finished at
twelve under, as did the Fireballs. These are and if you look at
the names of these plays, fantasticD'shambeau and his bunch is Catlin, Casey
and Lahiri besides him. They're ateleven. The Ironheads are at ten,
Majestics at ten, and it goeson and on from there. Looks like

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the range Coats had the worst luckof all. That would be Uline,
Wolf, Watson and Peter just threeunder par collectively. Somebody had a bad
day, I don't know. Nowto the individual leader board, which is
totally different, scoring, totally differentmoney, Martin Kaimer and Adrian excuse me,

(01:38:15):
Adrian moronk both and Caleb Sarat that'sthat young guy was talking about twenty
years old. All three of themseven under par yesterday certainly helped their teams.
And the reason the cliques are leadingis because Kimer and moronk are both
on that team. Then you getto Kevin Nah and let's see nine orties

(01:38:38):
at six Leishman, Garcia and Niemanand Patrick Reid, oh my gosh,
hold On and Poulter and Johnson andCasey all at five under par, tied
four. They're all tied for sixplaces, a mini bus full of them,
and then tied for thirteenth Jo Pugand that's it. And then it

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goes on from there once again.They only play fifty four holes. They've
got eighteen done and they will startat a few minutes after noon today,
so you still have plenty of timeto get up there, get yourself a
ticket. You can get your ticketsonline, very easy to do, and
it's all electronic now. You don'thave to stand in the line anywhere.

(01:39:23):
You just get on your phone byyourself a general admission ticket. And I
don't I think maybe the hospitality areashave been sold out. I know they
were yesterday. I'm pretty sure theywere yesterday at least, and you may
or may not be able to getsomething in that line, but just the
whole property is worth seeing. It'sa very different experience and it's a load

(01:39:43):
of fun, an absolute load offun. On the other side, there
always will be now up at theMemorial Tournament and Dura and well in your
field up in Dublin, Ohio,the Memorial leaderboard looks like this. Take
one, guess who's leading that field. It's the guy what was it three

(01:40:04):
weeks ago? Now that he hadhe got himself in trouble with the law,
that's all behind him. It's allbehind all of them, as I
predicted it would be forever. ScottieScheffler nine under par through two rounds.
Closest to him, Adam Hadwin andVictor Hobland at six a full sleeve behind,

(01:40:28):
Christian Bezidenhout and Keegan Bradley at fiveunder par tied for fourth. And
it goes on from there. Aybergand Penal Let's see no Aberg's at four
loan in sixth place. The threeunder pars who've got a lot of work
to do to find their way anywhere. Higher up that leaderboard, Tony fenow,

(01:40:48):
Roy McElroy, Xander Schaffley, andAksha Battia, who's been playing really
well lately. You know, Iwouldn't be surprised to see one of those
guys break out and go really loaded, say go really love. We'll see
lots of professional golf going on,a lot of it right here in Houston,
and most definitely worth a look.Let's go to Philippe. What's Philip

(01:41:12):
Felipe's Filippe? What is on yourmind? My friend? Uh? Well,
no, it's just actually I justdiscovered your show probably about a month
ago. Great man, Thank youso so every Saturday Sunday I look forward
to Holy Con. Thank you verymuch from the beginning again, So all
right, I appreciate you, knowyou coming on doing this well. This
morning, everybody's talking about the accidentstory and executed and getting stung and I

(01:41:39):
want to get here so plainly theway you said it, yeah, I
was like, man, like everybody'sgetting hurt it. I was like,
good day, I have it,but I have a sort of want to
share a that's real good fishing story. Okay, you know, to bring
back some light maybe come on agoa couple of years ago, back with
my brother was still in college,which arount' say about ten twelve years ago,

(01:42:02):
maybe somewhere around there. I wentdown to the Kingsville to go visit
and we went fishing. Got thecorpus to do here, and we don't
know how to fish, man,but we just thought, you know,
it'd be a good time to passthe time. I don't know, it
was around around sometime around this timelast year, I mean that time of

(01:42:23):
the year, and we're just playingaround. Next thing, you know,
we end up catching one of themred fish. I guess the star term
was going. Oh man, bigold tag red fish. I didn't even
know what it was, you knowwhat it was. And and some guy
came up to us and says,hey, you know that's that tag fish.
It's for the turn. He toldhim all about the tournament we want
and anything like that, and uh, we were something, guy here,

(01:42:47):
you can keep the fish. He'slike, no, no, I can't
do that. You know, Igotta you gotta release that back in the
water. I didn't catch it.You know, you did the right thing
of doing it good, you know, trying to be honorable and stuff like
that. But it was crazy thatyou know, my brother passed away a
few years ago, but you know, me and him that first time us
going out and then doing that timetogether. He got me into fishing and
he went and caught uh, youknow, a red fish for it.

(01:43:10):
So cool man, Yeah, letsme start. It was it such that
we weren't in the tournament, butit was cool that we were able to
catch one. Well, you know, and Felipe, you did the right
thing throwing that fish back, man, because now who knows, somebody may
have caught that fish actually and walkedaway with a truck and a boat and
a motor and a trailer. Sohere's the bazill Well, no, here's

(01:43:30):
the nine million dollar question or onepoint nine million dollar question. Are you
entered in the tournament now this year? Yes? I am, but I
haven't been able to go get that'sokay all summer? Oh yeah, trust
me. My wife's telling me we'regoing to go fishing this weekend. This
weekend, she's already panted all out, but you know, works person and
keep me down. So once toget that free time, I'm heading on

(01:43:51):
out there for first time a weekup, trakadonic, you know, good
luck to you. I would somebodylike you deserves to win something in that
tournament, and I'll if you catcha good fish, I really do.
Thanks for listening, and thanks forjumping on with a phone call. Don't
be a stranger man. Yes,sir, I have a quick question for
you. Yeah, come on.Okay, So somebody is me. I
haven't really been fishing that much,and like I said, I used to

(01:44:13):
go back when I was younger,and now I've stopped over the years and
I'm getting back into it. Sorry, I'm not sure about the other listeners
up there, if there's like afirst time listener or someone barely discovering the
show or or barely you know,discovering how to fish. Yeah, and
there any tricks something you can tellsomebody or give somebody from beginners, you
know, learn and all that likeand we just it's that's for me.

(01:44:34):
I'm sort of a person that wantsif I'm going to learn something, I
want to learn everything I can fromone guy or from multiple people. Hit
some tricks and I want that onelocation. But I find your show to
give me all that in formations.Thank you well, do me a favor,
Do me a favor. Felipe andsend me an email so we can
start swapping some emails back and forth, because that gives me a better opportunity

(01:44:54):
to kind of lay it out ina little bit of detail. And Robert
from down there in Galveson, Idon't know if you've heard him talking to
me on the show yet, buthe and I started that way. He
didn't know a whole lot about saltwaterfishing, and all of a sudden he's
sending me pictures from his backyard.He's got he's catching sharks, and he's
catching speckle trout and redfish and allkinds of stuff. Man, we'll get
you going. I love doing that. I would love to help you catch

(01:45:17):
some more fish. So just getin touch with me and I'll send you
as much as I can tell.Give me where you're gonna fish, what
kind of rod and reel you're throwing, and whether you want to use bait
or lures or whatever, and we'llgo from there. Man, Yes,
sir, I will. I'll dothat here. Yeah, it's very easy.
Dug Pike at iHeartMedia dot Com.I'm gonna be watching for you,

(01:45:40):
man. All right, yeah,thank you, Philipe. All right,
but what a great call. Ilove doing this. I'm not kidding.
If you if you want a questionanswered about when, where, how,
whatever, I'll give you what Iknow. And if I don't know the
answer, I know somebody who will. That's the good part, all right,
do me favor Melvin and asked Philto hang on and I'll get to

(01:46:02):
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(01:47:10):
com. This is Sports Talk sevenninety on the go with iHeartRadio Friends.
You've got to try. The conversationcontinues. This as the Doug Pipe Show.
I like this song. I usedto sing it for fun with some
friends of mine years ago, onehundred years ago, one hundred and fifty.
I don't know what it was.We didn't even have musical instruments back
then. It was so long ago, Melvin, we didn't even have voices.

(01:47:34):
We just tapped our feet seven threetwo two five seven ninety. Email
me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.Yes, you wanted to say something,
did you or know? Okay,let's go talk to Phil. Then Phil's
got lots to talk about. What'sup? Hey, Doug, how you
doing with beautiful morning? Yeah?Thank you, I appreciate it. Nice.

(01:47:55):
I'm there. Well, hopefully won'ttalk your ear off too much,
so I just want to stand thisbeautiful day. I really appreciate you know
how patriotic you are and how muchyou you know, you obviously appreciate armed
services. I deserve myself. Iknow a bunch of people that did.
Yeah, but I just thought itwas appropriate with the stories that we had
come up today that we just passedthe believe it's the eightieth anniversary of the

(01:48:20):
D Day. Absolutely, yes,sir, eighty years. We're eightieth anniversary
of D Day and plus two attoday, I believe, Yeah, I
think so. Yeah. Anyway,so I just want to kind of make
comment on that. And then Ihad a couple of quick stories. Everybody's
talking about their injury stuff. Idon't have any water related stories. But

(01:48:42):
I didn't manage to belt sand myleg with legs with a treadmill on a
eleven Holy cow man. Wow.Yeah. If I had a prize,
you'd probably win it. How didthat happen? I don't know. I
don't know. The couple of guys, the gentleman with the sting rays story,
there's no way it could have beenthis paint. It could have been
as painful as though they they getthat one all day long. So how

(01:49:09):
much him did you lose. Whatdid it just just rake your leg for
a long time or what happened?So basically, the trying to make it
a quick story, the I wasplaying around, like I said, I
was eleven, maybe twelve years old, and I was playing around on a
on a treadmill. I had onefoot on that the runner side that doesn't
move, and I like kind ofswinging over the tread Yeah, and I

(01:49:31):
had cranked it up to who knowshow fast, Yeah, something like that.
And then we're in an apartment complex. You were, you were eleven,
You cranked it up as high asit would go. Absolutely, and
it was also mad because my momyelled at me to get off the weight,
because again I was eleven anyway,So my foot was swinging and it

(01:49:55):
and it caught just enough and itwas going and it swung me back,
and I had my arm or myhands holding onto the you know, to
the main And this is before theyhad the like cut off strings, of
course, and so it just keepsgoing and I'm perfectly tall enough that my
legs go and my and I'm justtall enough that my feet go right underneath

(01:50:18):
where it curls back underneath. No, so I basically had burns from get
it was eleven, so guess youknow, kind of hide. It was
kind of average. I'm like aboutsix foot now, but I was burning
completely skinned from basically just below myknees to go down to my ankles,
third degree burns. And everybody's like, why didn't you let go? And

(01:50:40):
I'm like, well, I'm twofeet away from the giant mirror that's sitting
behind me. Go man, ohcol Yeah, so that was that was
fun when they first drink, youknow, when they instituted those kill switches.
Yeah, the day after that.Yeah, I really wish they had

(01:51:01):
had before you. I probably wouldhave been smart enough the whole day.
Only Okay, you at eleven,you wouldn't even have cared. I'm not
gonna get around this thing. Watchhis mom, I got it. Yeah,
I did see everybody left to tellthe story that was that was not
actually there watching that I jumped onhim. I was like, no,
I didn't jump on I'm doing thatmuch of an idiot. All right,

(01:51:23):
man, what else is on yourmind? So again, trying to make
it quick. So about the lightningstuff. So I grew up as a
competitive swimmer and coach for many years. I had a coach for many,
many years. Uh, and hewas a little bit different. He's British,
and so we ended up we usedan outdoor pool in the later years,

(01:51:45):
and he didn't let us get outof the pool with the older kids
until lightning was striking about about amile away. Oh wow. Yeah,
So he was like, nah,because because a lot of times anytime there
was a lightning striking, but theresomething came up on his little he's got
the little radar fying thing on hisphone. Uh. I mean, we'd
be out offering and offering a day, so we wanted to, you know,

(01:52:06):
get our laughs in. But healways told a story. And I
don't think anybody called him on thebluff. I don't think. I don't
know if it's a bluff or not, but he always swore that nobody there
was no record anywhere anybody dying frombeing from lightning striking while you're in a

(01:52:27):
pool. So like you're in thepool and the lightning strikes the pool.
Oh wow, Okay, that wasI I never called him on it,
so feel free to look it upand prove him wrong. That's what he
always claimed. Yeah, you've gotto make his got to make his coaching
money man the pool. Yeah,a bunch of sissies getting the pool.

(01:52:49):
He was naturally ranked in the UKbefore he came over here. But you
know that's what he told you.No, I don't look at that.
Okay, all right man, anyway, thanks, have a great day.
Yes, sir, h you havea great day. Oh actually, real
quick, you haven't done anything quickyet? What you got? Sorry?

(01:53:10):
Sorry, I'm just curious that yougot a chance to check out that that
Braves Value fishing spot, which one? Where did you remember me? It's
been probably about a month. Iwas telling about it because we lived close
together in sugar Land. Oh yeah, yeah, I have not done you
an email. I sent you anemail with that, I'm assuming. Yeah,

(01:53:30):
yeah, yeah, I do rememberthe email. Now I'll go check
it. No, I haven't beenover there yet, but I will.
I'm just curious. Yeah, walkman, all right, thank you?
Audios? Holy cow? Yeah,that that little spot I want to go
check. I got to go backto that email. I know it's still
here. I'll find it. Iabsolutely will find it, and I absolutely
will check it out and see ifI can catch a fish over there.

(01:53:54):
I was talking to my son aboutthis the other day we were driving around
somewhere and he and his little friendshave found all kinds of places to fish,
and it's not hard. You justgot to go looking for them.
And you gotta have you gotta havecommon sense, because you don't want to
be walking through a private gate.You don't want to be walking up on
places where there are there's clear indicationthat you're not supposed to be there.

(01:54:17):
Now, kids can get away withthat a little bit, but as a
grown up, you got to becareful. And anytime you're fishing any neighborhood
of lake, just be be polite. Don't show up with a ton of
stuff. Don't get lawn chairs andice chests out. Just have a little
maybe a little backpack or even justa little fanny pack of tackle. You

(01:54:38):
don't need to bring your whole yourwhole quiver of rods and reels, all
of that stuff when you go fishingplaces where number one, you don't want
to have to load none load allday. You want to fish, So
just grab a rod and reel that'salready got a lure on it, Grab
a pair of needle nose pliers,maybe put a towel in your belt,
a little short towel so you canwipe your hands off and then go fish.

(01:55:01):
If somebody asked you to leave,say I'm sorry, okay, fine,
I'll leave. Don't bow up onthem. Don't tell them it's private
property or public property. If it'snot, don't tell them you live in
the neighborhood. If you don't,just say okay, I'm sorry, I
just I'm trying to just I loveto fish, and this looked like a
place where I could catch one andthrow it back and fine, see you,
bye bye. Because there are alot of places where people won't give

(01:55:25):
you any grief, and that's asit should be. Honestly fishing, recreational
fishing and throwing the fish back,being careful with them with barbed mashed down
on the hooks and all that soyou don't kill them is something I think
that ought to be okay, Andjust about any late, nobody's gonna get
hurt. And if you're falling thewater, that's on you. You shouldn't

(01:55:45):
be able to get on the placeyou're fishing just because you fell in the
water. I feel like that ifI fall in the water, that's my
fault. If I if I twistmy ankle walking down a grassy bank trying
to get to the edge of thewater. That's on me. That's not
on them. They're not they're notsupposed to. I don't I don't think,

(01:56:09):
and I don't know what the lawis around all that, but I
just don't think. You know,if you're fishing somewhere, then you're on
your own. If you get abit by a snake, and then you
shouldn't have been standing there. Youshould have been looking at the bank or
at the at the ground beneath you. Sorry, I'm watching somebody on on
YouTube catching a fish. Okay,I gotta take a break. I'm multitasking

(01:56:30):
looking at YouTube stuff. That's nota bad thing. I like to watch
YouTube videos of fishing when I can'tbe fishing. But that's the only time
I would I would not prefer videosof any sort to fishing. But if
I have to be sitting down behinda laptop and there happens to be a
video on fishing on, I'm gonnawatch it. Tell you about a place

(01:56:53):
where you could I don't know aboutthe fishing in alpine Alpine, Texas is
out in the middle of the BigBend, Okay, and I'm not social
sure how good the fishing is there, but I know that the stargazing is
amazing. There's a little rhyme there. I know that the outdoor theater in
Alpine is a fantastic place to see. A tremendous production this summer. They're

(01:57:14):
doing Where did It Go to theSherwood? The Adventures of a Robin Hood
by a guy named Ken Ludwig.That's going on. The Alpine Cowboys baseball
team. Not double A, notTriple A, just Alpine Cowboys. There
are professional baseball players who are tryingto make their way through the ranks,
and they put on a pretty goodshow in the little town of Alpine.

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There is the American Legion fireworks showcoming up on the fourth of July.
There's a parade that day before then, even coming up, I think it's
next week actually out there, ifyou want to make a quick run,
you can do a ghost tour outthere in Alpine that starts and stops right
there in the town cemetery. Hereall kinds of stories about the old people

(01:58:00):
who were quite the characters in theirday when they were live and kicking in
Alpine. Beautiful, beautiful piece ofthe big Bend, tiny little town,
amazing stars at night. Like Isaid earlier, if you've never been outside
of Houston and you think you cansee some stars in the Houston night sky,

(01:58:21):
get away from the city lights,go out to Alpine. You will
see probably one hundred to one overwhat you're seeing here. Visit alpinetx dot
com. That's the website, veryeasy to find. Visit alpinetx dot com.

(01:58:42):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety onlineat sports seven ninety dot com.
Now more Doug Fie nine thirty sixon Sports Talk seven to ninety. Kind
of round and third and almost headinghome. Well, we're where we've rounded
second at least and headed to third. Ah, let's see what we see
here. I got so many goodpeople on listening to this show. Michael

(01:59:08):
sent me something outdoors swimmers dangerous lightningthe swimmers. Let's see what it says
here. I didn't have a chanceto read it during the break. I
had to run down a hall fora minute. Swimmers Guide outdoor swimmer events.
God, how dangerous is lightning theswimmers? The other day I was
swimming blah blah blah, blah blahblah. Most of you know later when

(01:59:30):
I got home, I did abunch of research. I'm trying to get
to his research. The biggest fear, Oh now the thing recycled. Hold
on, where am I? Thebiggest fear is direct strikes by lighting When
lightning strikes it often but not always, hits the tallest thing. Oh this
is this is going blah blah blah. Statistics show there were seventy one water

(01:59:56):
related deaths from lightning strikes. Thatwas between two thousand and six and twenty
fifteen, of which twenty percent werepeople in boats and eight percent were swimming.
Huh, seventy eight percent of seventyone is about fifteen or no,
it's not. It's not even ten. It's about five or six, five

(02:00:18):
point six that's what it would be. Eight percent. This doesn't prove that
you're safer in the water than ona boat, as we don't know the
relative number of people involved in eachactivity. Blah blah blah. But yes,
you can be killed by lightning whileon or in the water. So
the guy from the UK, theswim coach, sorry, he didn't know

(02:00:41):
what he was talking about at least, or at least he hid what he
knew from you. Yeah, thereyou go, it definitely can happen.
And I think I agree with whatBilly wrote. He said, you know,
oddly enough, those stories are verylimited when swimming pool is added to
the search. Plenty inn now nearthe water in general, but not so
much in swimming pools. I cansee that a swimming pool to lightning is

(02:01:05):
a fairly small target, fairly smalltarget, and it is the lowest thing
to the ground in most caves.Now, a swimming pool on top of
a high rise, top of abig hotel maybe a little more dangerous spot.
But nonetheless I think the pool,just by default, by being on

(02:01:27):
the ground, is less likely tobe hit than a fifty foot tall pine
tree somewhere nearby. Anything can gethit by light And when I was a
little bitty kid. When I wasa little bitty kid, some friends of
mine and I were playing in ahouse that was under construction, and we

(02:01:47):
were all of a sudden, thisbig storm comes up, so we're kind
of locked down in there while thestorm's passing through with lightning and heavy rain
and all that, and the windowshadn't been put in that I think the
windows may have been put in,but they were all open, and we
didn't want to. We didn't wantto close all the windows. That wasn't

(02:02:09):
our job, and we didn't knowwe might get in trouble for close them.
Who knows. So we were justleaning on these metal a little aluminum
metal window sills, watching the stormoutside, and lightning hit close enough by
it. I don't believe it hitthe house, but it hit close enough
that it gave all of us alittle jolt that kind of knocked us backwards.

(02:02:30):
It didn't knock us down even,but there was enough electricity that came
through that, through those window sillsthat it it got our attention. It
got our attention. I don't knowwhy we just spent so much time talking
about lightning strikes when I actually Iwould much prefer even there's a call coming

(02:02:51):
in. I'll check on that ina minute. But I would also kind
to go back to Felipe and hisinterest, his newfound interest in fishing,
which I hope I can help himwith, and I expect to see an
email from him at some point soonfigure out where he's going, what he
wants to catch, and what kindof tackle he's got. Once I know

(02:03:11):
that I can probably kind of gethim pointed in the right direction. It
doesn't take a lot of investment tobecome a fisherman, but it does take
some investment. And there are certainthings you want to invest a little more
in, certain things you want toinvest a little less in. But you
do need to get the best stuffyou can to have the best shot.

(02:03:36):
You don't have to invest a lotof money, but you got to put
in a little bit, if thatmakes any sense. And it will in
an email once I get Felipe oranybody else dialed into a conversation about this
stuff, I tend to send morethan you probably want to read in one
chunk, but I'll try to bebrief if you're interested. Kids anytime.

(02:03:57):
I got two kids going on fishing, by the way, in the last
week. I'm very happy and proudto report. One was on Sunday afternoon,
the other was on Monday afternoon andit worked out very well. Let's
go to brand and see what's up. What's up? Brandon, Hey,
mister PI carry you this morning.I'm great man. How are you good?
Good? Good? What's up?You're doing it? You're doing a

(02:04:20):
great job about the discussion about lightning, and a lot of people don't respect
this but here probably two to threeweeks ago, we had an individual that
got struck by lightning, and Imean, da oh man, I'm so

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sorry. Where was that in Eastan Art, Texas? Oh man,
yeah, lightning, man. Imean you can pull up the article.
I don't know. I haven't lookedat it. I haven't heard about it.
But I mean it was bad.Two to three weeks ago. The
lightning was coming straight down and thepoor individual, very young man, is

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no longer with us. So,yes, lightning is a very there is
matter. I don't care if you'rein a pool. I don't care if
you're in a tree, and doyou need to get you know, nothing
is worth losing your life over andwell and to di smell a myth too.
A lot of people think that lightningonly goes one way from sky to

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ground to ground sky, but itcan go both ways, so you're kind
of never really out of the woods. Yeah, it can. It can
get you either way. It's tough, yes, sir, all right,
well, thank you many Well.I mean it's I feel sorry for the
individual, and I feel sorry forthe yeah, of course, for the
family. For the family. Imean I think I heard he was in

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his mid twenties. Oh gosh,anytime we look somebody else life cut short.
Yes, indeed, thank you forsharing that. I appreciate it and
I hope it'll keep somebody else.It's a very serious it's a very serious
matter. It really is. Well, sir, thank you. All right,

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let me drop that one. Let'sgo to Adrian. What's up Adrian?
Hey, good morning, Doug.I always love your show. Thank
you. I just wanted to throwin. You were talking about Alpine,
perked me up. I went toschool out of there. Oh nice.
Yeah, so I know a littlebit about that area, and you missed
one great point. Okay. Youcan go about twenty miles down the road

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and go to the town of Marfa. Oh yeah. They have what they
call them Marpha lights up there,and they are true. I've seen them,
I think because it's just so bastand the and the radiation off the
ground whatever, but these lights comeon and off and move around and there's
nothing out there, and it's prettycool. We'll take a day by the
way. It's a good place topark anywhere. Spoken like are spoken like

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a college student with nothing else todo on Friday night. Yeah, all
right, thanks man. Appreciated Adrianbuddy. Yeah, uh, great place
to park. Holy cow. No, I don't think so. I don't

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know who. No, I don'tbelieve I didn't hear anything. All right,
Yeah, all right? Where amI going now? Oh? I
gotta go to a break. Holycow. Yeah. When we've done everything
we need to do, let's takea break here. We'll be right back
to Doug Pike Show on Sports Talkseven ninety. Come. This is Sports
Talk seven ninety, Facebook dot com, slash sports Talk seven ninety. Back

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to the Doug Pike Show. Atthe Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk seven
ninety. Got a few minutes left, and I'm trying, boy, I'm
trying to figure out where to go. I'm getting all these good emails.
Yeah, let me do that fora minute. And then right before we
wrap up, I'm gonna I'm gonnaget Dan Matthews on the phone. He's
out there at Golf Club of Houstonat the live golf event. I want

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to find out what goes on earlyin the morning out there. Let's see
here. That one is. Yeah, lightning in a pool. We're good
on lightning in a pool. Ithink we've established it that can happen.
This one got my attention. Wheredid it go here? It is right
here? No, that's not it. Oh there it is. Yeah,
Larry sends in, this is theone I wanted to get to because I

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have experienced this as well, andit was long ago when I was a
very small child growing up in Sharpstown. This exact same thing happened to me.
Larry writes, we need some kindof music, by the way,
Melvin, for when there's something Idon't know, if it's not tragic.

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I'll just read this one and thenwe'll come up with the music we need
for when a similar situation is aboutto be read. Beware of where you
reach outdoors. Larry Wrights just gottoo close to a nest of yellowjackets.
They lit me up on the leftcheek and right hand. I'm on fire.

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Be safe now. I don't knowwhat we can use for that,
but you be thinking about that,Melman. We need when somebody's getting hurt
by a This will be reserved forsting rays, yellow jackets, snake bites,
spider bites, something like that.Gnat bites for me because I react
to them. It's like somebody justabsolutely blew me up with a balloon wherever

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I got bit. But I havehad that yellow jacket experience. I was
reaching into the lagustrium bushes in thebackyard trying to get a baseball that had
rolled under there, because I wasn'ta very good catcher yet. That's probably
when I was three. Reach inthere, look up, and just like

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Larry's experience, I'm right there andall those yellowjackets looked at me and said,
oh kid, you've made a veryvery poor decision to come into the
bushes where we live. And theyall jumped on me at once, basically
and pretty much caught me on theface and I would presume around the rest
of my body. I would alsobet you money that summertime throwing the baseball

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in the backyard, I didn't evenhave a shirt on, so I'm sure
I got lit up pretty good.And fortunately that's about all I remember.
I don't remember how bad it felt. I do remember hearing this, and
that was enough. That's all Ineeded to hear. Let me get Dan
on the phone. Let's go.I want to talk to him. Dan

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Matthews. Ye, what are youdoing? Are you the only person there?
Oh? No, there are plentyof people here. I mean they
got free food, so you knowhow them. Oh well yeah, as
soon as free food is teased out, I mean people will be there about
fifteen minutes early. Yeah, theydo. They offered. Yeah, that
media center opens up pretty early,doesn't it. That's that's true. And

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by the way, too, we'rebearing the lead. The media center I'm
in is the live golf events happeningout here at the Golf Club of Houston.
You know, it's funny. Isee the signs that say Golf Club
of Houston, and I'm like Redstone, Like, oh no, that that's
a Stone ages man. Come on, well, I mean, you know,
a lot of us still call sure, I will still, you know,

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at time it's called NRG Stadium Reliant. Still, yeah, I can
tell you that. You know,I don't call them it made park in
Ron because well that's for different reasons. But no, out here, it's
pretty awesome. And if you followme on social media on Instagram at Dean
Matthews twenty seven, you see thatI got a pretty up close picture of
a certain multi time major winner.He's left handed, He's got a pretty

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good flop shot. Left handed witha good flop shot, great golfer talking
about me. It's the major thing. Yeah, that's what separates me from
Phil Mickels, and that's all there. You go. Yeah, he's a
good dude. He was left.He was making his way from the clubhouse
out to the range to get someswings in. So we'll probably start to

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see some of the golfers. Andyou know, I gotta be honest,
Doug, I mean, you know, as being somebody that follows golf like
you do, I'm excited to seewhat this event looks like. I've seen
it a little bit on TV,heard the premise of it, right,
but I really haven't ever had achance to check it out. I mean,
you know, I've grown up onthe PGA Tour just like a lot
of us have, and it's obviouslya little different than what the tour is.

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So you're this is your first dayat liv it's my first day out
here. Yes, yeah, Ididn't have a chance. I wanted to
try to get out here to seeour good buddy Sean Salisbury, he who
played that's right. Yeah, hehad Brian Lialima looping for him, and
that's what I would like to haveseen. I was gonna say, I

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I don't think he was able tooffer Lilima total consciousness on his deathbed something
for the action. But I dobelieve they did have a lot of fun
out here. I walked by thestudio yesterday morning and just looked inside to
Brian, and I tapped my shoulderand kind of moved it around to ask

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in asking whether his shoulder hurt,and his eyes rolled back in his head,
and yeah, he was in alot of pain. I know he
wasn't, There's no doubt. KnowingSalisbury, he probably dropped a couple of
bricks in the bottom of his bagbefore they went out. I would have
been say some you can't trust Salisburysometimes more than you can throw him in
the size of them, you can'tthrow him very far. No, I

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could not. Just had to rollhim down the hill be my best bet.
So overall, so far, whenthey're not even the course yet,
most of the guys haven't even comeout of the locker room yet, and
a few of them might not evenbe there because they go off at noon
all at once. Well, neitherof us has ever experienced that. I'm
gonna try to get out there forthe for the kickoff, but I don't

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know if I'll be there that early. I have some stuff I have to
do around here first. What whattell me this? Have you noticed,
like I did that clearly this thisevent caters to a younger crowd. Do
you agree with that? Oh?Oh absolutely? I mean, you know,
they were already doing all of theirsound checks and everything with the DJs,

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and they were playing all the musicearly this morning. And it's funny
too, because you know, I'mgonna have somebody on from A live a
little bit later on good who'd youget? I want to talk to them
about that. We're gonna have TroyTutt. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
he is the senior VP Ticketing andHospitality to Live. I talked to him
a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, he's a great interview. By the

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way, You'll be ready absolutely absolutely, yeah. I'm looking forward to it.
And you know, and I remembertoo, I mean the phenomenon of
I'll never forget the first time playinggolf with my brother and one of his
buddies had a Bluetooth speaker in thecards and I'm like, what are you
doing? You know, because likeyou I grew up on, there's no
music, there's no sound, nothingkind of it took off over the years

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and Live went with it. Ohmy god. Yeah, the music's playing.
My music's playing, not yours.I'll be out there. I hope
you're still there when I get there. I'll call you when I get there
and let you know, and we'lljust hang out and see what's going on.
Great place to be, great dayto be out there. Dan Matthews,
that Live Golf, he's next onSports Talk seven ninety. That's it
for me. Stay safe, becareful outdoors. I'll see you tomorrow morning.

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